Slí Scoil Scairte
The Scoil Scairte Way
A free online introduction to a different way of learning Irish
17 September 2026
7pm Irish | 2pm EST | 11am PT
Online via Zoom
An Invitation
Have you been longing to connect with the language, culture and heritage of Ireland but you don't know where to begin?
Maybe you learned some Irish at school but actually remember very little.
Or you understand a few words cúpla focal, but freeze when it's time to speak.
What if learning Irish isn't about getting it right?
At Scoil Scairte, we believe language doesn't live in a textbook.
It lives in the relationships between
people and places.
stories and songs.
culture, community and creativity.
Between ourselves, our ancestors and the living world.
This is where an Ghaeilge comes truly alive.
Slí Scoil Scairte is a free online taster experience where you'll discover a different way into Irish language and cultural heritage.
In Irish, slí means way, path, passage or journey.
Discover why Scoil Scairte, our award-winning immersive learning experience, has captured the hearts and minds of people all over the world.
Discover the Scoil Scairte way.
Irish is more than a language
At Scoil Scairte, we believe learning is more than acquiring knowledge.
It can be a practice of personal transformation, collective reimagining and cultural renewal.
So we don't teach Irish as an isolated subject, we place an ghaeilge in a wider web of interconnected relationships.
land · lineage · story · song · body · place · people · kinship · community
Rather than learning isolated words and grammar, we create experiences where language has somewhere to live, shaping how we relate to ourselves, to each other and to the living world.
When language has meaning and context, it becomes easier to remember.
When we feel safe enough to try, confidence grows.
And when we learn with other people, language becomes relational rather than transactional.
Longing becomes belonging
This is at the heart of our pedagogy.
And in this free session, you'll experience it for yourself.
What You’ll Receive in Slí Scoil Scairte
This free course invites you to savour the essence of Irish cultural heritage without any shamrocks, shillelagh or shenanigans in sight.
You’ll experience:
A rich initiation into cultural homecoming and belonging
Fresh pathways into language, land, lineage & lore
Resources to help you revitalise your connection to Ireland’s wild spirit
Practices to help you move from longing to belonging and rewild what it means to be Irish and a global citizen
What if there were another way?
Find an approach to Irish that feels welcoming, meaningful and alive.
At Scoil Scairte we explore:
Language connected to culture and place
Encounter an Ghaeilge as part of a living culture not something separate from Ireland itself.
Language through lived experience
Learn Irish in context, through stories, songs, conversation and experience rather than isolated words to memorise.
The body as a pathway to learning
Explore simple embodied practices that can help soften the fear, shame or self-consciousness that can arise around speaking.
Language in relationship
Experience how conversation, story, song and shared experience can bring language alive.
And you'll leave with some Irish you can actually use.
Come and experience the Scoil Scairte Way
This isn't a class where you'll simply sit back and listen. You are invited to participate.
During this free taster session, you'll:
꩜ Hear and speak some Irish you can begin using straight away
꩜ Experience the Scoil Scairte approach for yourself
꩜ Explore Irish through story, song, culture and place
꩜ Experience a simple embodied practice for speaking with more ease
꩜ Discover how relationship changes the way we learn
꩜ Explore the connections between language, lineage, land and longing
꩜ Meet some of the artists, teachers and cultural practitioners who make Scoil Scairte what it is
꩜ Discover how you can continue your Irish journey with us
Why Join?
This free taster experience is an invitation to reconnect with your dúchas, your inherited ancestral wisdom, cultural knowledge and sense of belonging.
The wild spirit of Ireland is stirring. If you're drawn to learn Irish, reconnect with your roots and participate in the cultural renewal happening in Ireland right now, this is a place to begin.
Come curious.
Come as you are.
Meet Your Guides
You won't walk this path alone.
Scoil Scairte is carried by a collective of artists, activists, teachers, storytellers and wisdom keepers
who bring Ireland's living culture into the learning space.
Kathy Scott
Founder, curator, cultural activist and trauma-informed facilitator
Joseph Jones / Seosamh Mac Seoin
Ulster Irish teacher, actor and filmmaker
Annemarie Ní Churreáin
Irish poet, librettist and poetry editor from the Donegal Gaeltacht
Jenny Ní Ruiséil
Irish musician, yoga teacher blending traditional Irish language singing with devotional chanting.
Together, we'll experience what becomes possible when we learn an Ghaeilge through relationships with the people, places, stories, songs and living culture that carry her.
Why Scoil Scairte?
Scoil Scairte is an award-winning immersive Irish language learning experience created for people who want more than simply learning words.
It's for people who feel a longing to belong
With the language.
With Ireland.
With the wild world
With culture and heritage.
With place, people, story and song
Our approach brings language into relationship with the living world around it, creating a learning experience that is embodied, experiential, relational and deeply rooted in Irish culture.
Your first step on the Slí
You don't need to know anything. You don't need to get it right. You simply need to be curious.
Come and feel your way into Irish. Listen. Breathe. Sense. Speak. Share. Connect.
Let the language move beyond something you know and become something you experience.
Begin a relationship with an Ghaeilge. As she lives, woven through the people, places, stories, songs and culture of Ireland.
Transform your longing into belonging.
Join us for Slí Scoil Scairte
A free online introduction to learning Irish through the living web of relationships that carries her
17 September 2026 · Online via Zoom
